The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-03-22

The new week on the Stock Exchange OPEN
ed without change in the speculative situa-
ton, and the market was again dull and fea-
tureles-- with transactions retaining same pro-
fessional character Dealing for the most part
possessed no significance being principally
scalping operations on room traders Although
there some little selling for foreign
count early in the day. the only special feature
noticeable were the strength in Fort Worth
and Denver, Texas Pacific and Hoe king Valley
and weakness i'm Reading and Pacific Mail.
humors were current that the consolidation of
Pacific possible, but other statements were
to the effect that the recent advance in the
ton of increased profits from extensions now
in course of construction. Reading adj
verely affected by the announcement of an
appeal in the foreclosure suit, but later the
friends of the syndicate expressed the opinion
reorganization and "A somewhat better feeling
resulted The usually active stocks were all
dull and listless throughout the day. and their
fluctuations and final changes were of no inn
portance whatever. The opening was tame,
uninteresting, but fairly steady, with first
prices, showing only slight changes, equally
heavy in the early trading. The market later
was steady s but remained extremely duli,
"A squirt in Texas Pacific during the afternoon.
There was another period of heaviness i'm the
and dull sales were $1,000 shares. The active
stocks are generally lower this evening. but
the declines in no case exceed u per cent,
Cotton.
LIVERPOOL March n, p M March
June, : ss-6s. buyer; Jnne-juiy, 5 ,s-ei, seller:
July-AugtIst- 5t-64, seller; August-September,
value; September, 3l-6i- Futures closed
quiet
cellept business has been done to-day, with n
general upward turn ON values, the advance
amounting To l5Gl Is points. From that there
one or two points shading, but at the close
the Offering proved light and the tone steady.
The sharpness of the advance has led to
great deal of realizing, yet Offering was freely
absorbed and all temporary reactions on value
quickly recovered. the demand including
"A liberal rpm of orders from New Orleans, I'M
derstood To represent an investing syndicate.
Europe strengthened enough TO carry consid-
erable influence. and the condition Of the
Southern markets was in most cases support
ing. Spots advanced 1sc, with light offerings.
lures closed Steady: sales IA. 500 March. 10 %
q 10 10; April. 10 12d 10 ID; May, 10 Is; June,
81; October. slGt9 -; January, 75d9 10
General Markets
wILNISGroN March 2I.-Turpentine steady
at 35c Rosin firm: strained. 80; good, s5c
Tar firm at Sl.l0. Crude Turpentinefirm; hard,
Sl.U, yellow Dip and Virgin Sl.D-
CHICAGO, March 2l.-SpeculatiOn in wheat
was at a low ebb to-day There WAS very little
news To affect the course of the market, and
prices were held within narrow limits. Nav
Wheat opened slI4c, declined to s01sc. and
closed at Sic. decrease in the visible supply
of 10000 bushels fell considerable short of the
expectations of SPECTATORS. and no special
changes in values followed the announce
ments. The uncertain condition of the mar
ket checks trading Traders are afraid to sell
short and feel reluctant about buying fear
ing that the tremendous quantities now held by
certain bull spectators may be thrown on the
market at the same time; Export clearings
aggregated s9,uOO bushels from two ports. Re-
ceipts aggregated Sc. 90 bushels at IL points,
Expected large receipts of corn together
with an increase Oft $4,000 bushels in the visible
supply, caused weaker feeling. and prices fell
of I4Gssc, closing at about inside figures
Oats were dull and nnehanged. Mes Pork
pressure To sell Lard early in the day, and
prices declined 5S71z cents, but rallied again
Short ribs declined l0al5 cents, but rallied
egain and closed l.1kdtaO cents higher
shanse aa' so. sra5ss What au "a ~
No red nominal; Corn, ss4sda s4s: Noyem-
Short Rib Sides loose S7-.!1s. Dry Salted
Shoulders, boxed, s625f@ short Clear Sides
bowed, .. ioBs.l5 Whisky, s1.ls- The leading
Wheat, No s-Narch, .5ss: May. 81: June
81. Corn, March, ss5sc- May; 30; May: sSa:sls;
June, y. Mess Pork. March, SOLO. May and
June. sanN. Lard, March, s. O' May, $40,
New YORK, March 2l.-Southern Flour
moderasely active IN great part for export,
April. sifl. Corn steady and moderately nc,
tive; options 40 lsc lower and ciosign weak
No.a March i.7s: May, 4'ssa+a4sas- Oats a
@3is4; May, 3i1@13tzs- Hops quiet and steadily
held Coffee fair Rio firm at I4lsc; options
stronger and fairly active, No. Rio. March,
sl2 ssttI2 Is; April. Sl2 SS112 9O..May, $3.50.
Sugar firm; centrifugal. SO: fair to good re-
filming, 9-l6ff4 l-ll-l6; refined firm aud quiet.
Moasses steady; sales of three cargoes, 50 test,
~; three cargoes ditto. Philadelphia 10 cents.
Rice firm. Cotton Seed Oil, 81: crude ga a3sc
for refined Resin steady. Turpentine steady.
Hides steady, Pork quiet and firm Mess:
nominal Lard opened 5e17 points lower, clos
ing atrifie better than Saturday; Western
$50 April S.-sl, April, 52; May, s. s2Gi 20.
Freights steady.
LONDON, March 2l--'rhe Mark Lane Express
in its weekly review of the British grain trade
says: English wheat Is dull and irregular
The sales of English wheat during the past
week were Al ,st6 quarters at Sss lid; against
i2,5l9 quarters at 3s Id. during the cor
responding week of last year. Some anxiety
is caused by the discovery of large numbers of
the pupse of the Hessian fly in the screenings
of wheat from threshing machines throughout
the provinces Agriculturists urge the i'm
mediate destruction by fire of all screenings,
claiming that il there il any delay il will be
too late 10 cope with the pest Flour is duh
and weaker, owing to enormous supplies from
America Foreign wheat does not improve.
In grain and Russian are cheaper The Liver
pool quotation IL one penny lower.
Corn Is steady against buyers; Linseed fell
one penny, but regained six pence towards the
close of the week There were three arrivals of
was sold At to-day's market wheat was dull.
for both English and foreign Country -four
W. NM han stl IGN ziv